I went to a different linux box and installed a different tomcat server (3.3) and brought in axis, copied /webapps/axis to $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps..
connected to tomcat server and it's serving examples that run ... (took me seven tries for hi-lo) connected to axis server and it's running too cd'd to samples/userguide/example3 where deploy.wsdd is located and issued the following command: java org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient deploy.wsdd - Processing file deploy.wsdd - AxisFault: AxisFault faultCode: http://xml.apache.org/axis/:Server.userException faultString: java.net.UnknownHostException: localhost faultActor: null faultDetail: stackTrace: java.net.UnknownHostException: localhost at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:571) at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:540) at java.net.InetAddress.getByName(InetAddress.java:449) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:100) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.process(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.process(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.process(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.process(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.main(Unknown Source) ********************************************** My tomcat server is running on port 7777 and is behind a firewall ... that's two different axis servers that are generating the same error ... does anybody know what's behind the unknown host exception? Thanks ... John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/